Recognizing the need to incentivize progress toward an upgraded urban power system, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority awarded 30 communities each a $100,000 grant to conduct microgrid feasibility studies.
Crucial to the success of the SDGs will be strong government systems and, in particular, strong statistical systems that can measure and incentivize progress across the goals [1].
"If this type of platform had existed when we were negotiating FLEGT, we would have been able to identify much more sharply the key actors from the private sector, as well as the key jurisdictions that have a stake in the trade between countries, and incentivize progress along the way," he says, adding that good actors are already becoming dramatically more transparent.
Users can also take "Challenges" in personal fitness, organize events, or donate to the Challenges of others to incentivize their progress through JustGiving integration, tracking progress as they go.
To incentivize rapid progress to translation, Quest award recipients who successfully complete a "Progression Event" within one year of the Quest Award end date will receive a "Progression Award" of $150,000 direct project costs.
"Regulatory concerns were circumvented, advisers were heavily incentivized to progress the deal". Goldman Sachs is one of those advisers.
He suggested that the upgrade could have the effect of stripping the TIP ranking of its power to incentivize actual progress.
Facebook has been making a lot of progress incentivizing celebrities and journalists to use the feature by making it easy to amass subscribers from its user base that's 8 times the size of Twitter.
The key to unlocking large-scale environmental and social progress is incentivizing those dollars to flow toward addressing the SDGs.
This will minimize the externalities, both here and abroad, of climate progress, and incentivize new industries and energy processes.
